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The first attempt to establish a railway was a private affair in 1846 by the Trinidad Railway Company. [1] Trinidad Railway Company's very first steam locomotive was the "Forerunner" which was built by Hunslet of Leeds and arrived in 1864. [2] Railway construction began in the 1870s. The Arima line was completed in 1876, followed by the San ...
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The Public Transport Service Corporation or better known as PTSC is the state-owned public transport provider for Trinidad and Tobago. Its headquarters are at City Gate in Port of Spain (formerly the Trinidad Government Railway headquarters). Passengers have to buy the tickets at a ticket booth and show it to the driver.
(The narrow-gauge agricultural railway was shut down in the late 1990s). On April 11, 2008 the Trinitrain consortium announced it would plan and build the 105 km two-line Trinidad Rapid Railway. [1] It was claimed that the new railways were needed to overcome growing road congestion. [2] However the project was cancelled in September 2010. [3] [4]
Example of a double decker passenger car, proposed to be used for Trinidad Rapid Railway. On 11 April 2008, the TriniTrain consortium of Alstom Transport SA, Alstom T&T Ltd, Bouygues Construction and RATP Développement announced it had been selected by the government to plan and build two new passenger railway lines in Trinidad. [1]
Outside of the shop in the yard was the rusting away of an old 4-6-0 American locomotive awaiting repairs. This loco was a Baldwin built type brought to the railway by the Americans when they took over the operations of the railway during the war.
March 1: The Indiana and Ohio Railway (not Class I) takes over from Conrail on a piece of the former Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway; another segment will be transferred on December 19, 1986. [36] May 1: The Rarus Railway begins operating the former Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway (no longer Class I). The name will be changed back ...
It was founded on January 11, 2005, but the inaugural Board was appointed on 22 March 2005. It is carrying out infrastructure projects that form Vision 2020, which is a plan created by the government, to achieve first world status, by the year 2020.